yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything

Oh he isn’t promoting Lizza. He is basically arguing that this is all hot gossip and what Lizza is alleging is just gossip.

I think the one big tell is that none of her defenders are actually trying to refute any of this. Nuzzi -through her spokesperson- has said that she won’t acknowledge any future allegations.

Lizza has an axe to grind but seems weirdly specific to accuse her betraying her sources with catch-and-kill.

His characterization of their relationship in Part I is that they got each other out of messes. That passage strongly implies he'd already sat on behavior that he should have flagged. (And you'll notice he says nothing about flagging the Sanford affair to her employer -- just their book agent.)

I can actually see the lawyers telling the NY Magazine and Vox to sit on it. Plus, I don’t think Nuzzi was cooperative and she lawyered pretty quick.

Everyone that was in that group chat with Milo Yiannopoulos got fired but her.

He might be the only politician caught cheating who didn’t call his mistress a whore or blame it on booze or something. His original press conference when he came clean was a mess yeah but also surprisingly heartfelt and it always stuck with me.

yeah it’s bad that Lizza has been sitting on this for so long but also how cursory and inept was that Vox investigation that not only managed to miss the biggest scandal in the history of American political journalism but affirmatively exonerated her bsky.app/profile/bkel...

It is really bad if you care about journalism

Chotiner really did get his ass lmaoooo